Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is enjoyable and well-acted. Eva Green’s talents, and a bunch of children with abilities different to what I’ve already seen in plenty of superhero movies, were what appealed the most.

I also loved watching Chris O’Dowd in a ‘struggling father’ role – a highlight because he did a good job. The story is well-constructed, and with Tim Burton, plus his rich imagination in the director’s chair, it’s unsurprising that the visual manifestations of writer Ransom Riggs’s characters are another highlight.

Contrary to my initial thoughts after watching the trailer, Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children are not quite superheroes in the traditional sense. Reason being, their main concern is saving their own particular kind rather than humanity as a whole (not a criticism, just something I realised).

There is a moment in the movie where I thought, ‘really? you went with that take?’ It was during Asa Butterfields’s character’s anguish at his grandfather’s demise. It’s not so much that there were no tears in sight since I know that not everyone cries in such predicaments. It’s that his supposed anguish didn’t ring particularly true for me. Something about the rhythm, maybe.

Though not exactly perfect, I say watch Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children for the story, fun adventure, special effects and refreshing difference when compared to the ‘peculiarities’ of todays well-known superhero movie characters.

Happy Film Loving,

G